However, Suryakumar, stationed at long off had other ideas.
Suryakumar sent the ball up in the air as he realised his momentum was going to take him outside the boundary ropes before coming back to take the catch neatly and send David Miller back to the pavilion.
India eventually went on to win the match by 7 runs to lift the T20 World Cup.
While there was an initial chatter around the legality of Miller's catch, the matter seemed to have settled down. However, South African spinner Tabraiz Shami's post on social media account has reignited the debate. Sharing a video, Shamsi wrote: "If they used this method to check the catch in the world cup final maybe it would have been given not out 😅". The post has attracted a lot of eyeballs so much so that the South African star had to clarify that it was only a joke.
Take a look at his posts here: